6.29. Installing Bzip2

6.29.1. Installation of Bzip2

Install Bzip2 by running the following commands:


make -f Makefile-libbz2_so &&
make bzip2recover libbz2.a &&
cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 &&
cp bzip2recover /bin &&
cp bzip2.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
cp bzlib.h /usr/include &&
cp -a libbz2.so* libbz2.a /lib &&
rm /usr/lib/libbz2.a &&
cd /bin &&
rm bunzip2 && ln -s bzip2 bunzip2 &&
rm bzcat && ln -s bzip2 bzcat &&
cd /usr/share/man/man1 &&
ln -s bzip2.1 bunzip2.1 &&
ln -s bzip2.1 bzcat.1 &&
ln -s bzip2.1 bzip2recover.1

Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system it's worth mentioning that you can download a patch for Tar which enables the tar program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a plain tar you'll have to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz|tar xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and bunzip2 with tar. This patch gives you the -y option so you can unpack a Bzip2 archive with tar xvfy file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when you re-install the Tar package.

6.29.2. Command explanations

make -f Makefile-libbz2_so: This will cause bzip2 to be build using a different Makefile file, in this case the Makefile-libbz2_so file which creates a dynamic libbz2.so library and links the bzip2 utilities against it.

6.29.3. Contents

The Bzip2 packages contains the bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat and bzip2recover programs.

6.29.4. Description

6.29.4.1. Bzip2

bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.

6.29.4.2. Bunzip2

Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2.

6.29.4.3. bzcat

bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output.

6.29.4.4. bzip2recover

bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.